Center for Responsible Forestry
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 861324309
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Quilcene, WA, USA
- Phone
- 2063694829
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Forest Conservation
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $154,452
- Expenses
- $169,672
- Assets
- $226,085
- Liabilities
- $4,627
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Brel Froebe (Former Executive Director)
- Mary Jean Ryan (Board President)
People named in this filing
- Brel Froebe (Former Executive Director)
- Mary Jean Ryan (Board President)
- Eirik Steinhoff (Board Secretary)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of Center for Responsible Forestry (CRF) is to achieve the permanent protection of the last remaining legacy forests in Western Washington by working with impacted local communities and state policymakers. CRF also works in partnership with other conservation organizations to accelerate the adoption of state forest policy and practices grounded in forest ecology.
What it reported doing in 2025
Accomplishments from 2025 include: securing funding for older forest conservation from the state's Natural Climate Solutions account, securing funding for State DNR to do an assessment of the lands most appropriate for inclusion in a Natural Resource Conservation Area in the Elwha Watershed on the Olympic Peninsula, and provided detailed input to the DNR Commissioner's 77,000 acres conservation proposal. CRF also overhauled its website and developed educational videos explaining the multiplicity of benefits of older, structurally complex forests.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 75
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 31
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 77.8%; rating input score 78
- Program expense ratio: 70.8%; rating input score 71
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -9.9%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.33; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 36.9%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -5.7% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 25.1% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 77.8% of revenue deployed · 70.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $120K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 14/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 32/100.